At 01:59 PM 25/09/01, nat hawks wrote:
quoted 7 lines i fully agree with brian here and i'm starting to get erked by the IDM
>i fully agree with brian here and i'm starting to get erked by the IDM
>i've been coming across. it's getting too complacent. where is the
>passion?!
>there's no fire in this music. too passive.
>
>i came into this music through early aphex and mu-ziq. that shit rocks
>like anything rocks. it kicks ass.
Well personally, I don't think that music has to "rock" or "kick ass" (two
descriptive terms which annoy me to no end) to be passionate. On the
contrary, some of the most passionate music ever recorded is about as far
from being aggressive as can be imagined. Check out some of Billie
Holiday's more mournful songs like "Strange Fruit", or Sinatra tracks like
"In The Wee Small Hours" and "It Was A Very Good Year", and tell me that
you don't hear any passion.
Yes, there's a place in the electronic spectrum for noisy, "kick ass" stuff
like early Aphex and mu-Ziq, and Venetian Snares, and the like. When I'm in
the mood for something heavy and fun, I'm perfectly fine with that. But
there's also a place for more mellow, introspective, melodic work, and
there can be just as much "passion" in that stuff if you're in the right
frame of mind.
Greg
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